To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only …
- … Has not Koch published good Germany Flora: does he mark varieties? Could you lend …
- … it me? Is there not some grand Russian Flora which perhaps has vars. …
- … marked. — The Floras ought to be well known. — I am in no hurry for a few weeks. — Will …
- … Wilhelm Daniel Joseph. 1843–4. Synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae, exhibens stirpes …
- … Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1842–53. Flora Rossica sive enumeratio plantarum in totius …
- … wish much you would think of any well-worked Floras with from 1000–2000 species, with the …
- … done or am doing. Babington Henslow British Flora London Catalogue. H. C. Watson Boreau. …
- … N. U. States Hooker. N. Zealand ——— Fragment of Indian Flora Wollaston Madeira Insects. …
- … Press. 1985–. Fürnrohr, August Emanuel. 1839. Flora Ratisbonensis, oder Uebersicht der um …
- … Cambridge. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The botany …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae , which CD has now finished …
- … was unlikely. CD’s comment about the flora at the foot of the Himalayas alludes to a …
- … essay’ was the introduction to Hooker’s Flora Tasmaniæ ( Hooker 1855–60 ). It was also …
- … 7). CD refers to the introductory essay of the Flora Indica (Hooker and Thomson 1855) and …
- … a similar introduction to Hooker’s Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ ( Hooker 1853–5 ). CD’s annotated …
- … 1985–. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The botany of …
- … Reeve. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1855–60. Flora Tasmaniæ. Pt 3 of The botany of the Antarctic …
- … this beats all. The general comparison of Flora of Australia with rest of world strikes …
- … inexplicable fact. — The invading Indian Flora very interesting; but I think the fact you …
- … as of the races of man in Britain. Your remark on mixed invading Flora keeping down or …
- … destroying an original Flora which was richer in number of species, strikes me as …
- … whether to me the discussion on N. Zealand Flora is not even more instructive. I cannot …
- … Robert Brown’s essay on the Australian flora ( Brown 1814 ), which Hooker praised in his …
- … were highly characteristic of the Australian flora, but not entirely confined to it, and …
- … Australian contribution to the Indian flora ( Hooker 1859 , p. l). CD believed that …
- … invaded & almost exterminated Australian Flora of Tropics. —’ In his essay ( Hooker 1859 , …
- … remarked that the future of the Australian flora depended upon its power to compete with …
- … the remarkable difference between the flora of south-west Australia compared with that of …
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1845]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-927 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica . CD is delighted with it. " …
- … cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful." Questions …
- … JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; …
- … comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand. …
- … 1841–9. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844– 7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. Pt …
- … I have just got as far as Lycopodium in your Flora & in truth cannot say enough how much I …
- … at the similarity of the Antarctic Floras: it is wonderful. — I hope you will tabulate all …
- … surprised me more, than the absence of Alpine floras in the S. islands: it strikes me as …
- … T. del Fuego had possessed a large alpine flora! — I sh d . much like to know whether the …
- … appearance of places & yet I presume the Flora of the former is far more scanty than of …
To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea …
- … to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples …
- … George. 1865b. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the flowering plants and …
- … scheme, & if you make only a beginning on a Flora, which shall serve as an index to all …
- … it you will have started a new era in the Floras of various countries. I can well believe …
- … that he was going to write a ‘British Flora’ adapted to students’ purposes and containing …
- … George Bentham’s Handbook of the British flora ( Bentham 1865 ), see the letter from J. …
- … advanced students, if they found in their Flora a line or two on various curious points, …
- … y r idea; it is a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to …
- … ought to be introduced into a Utopian Flora,—on the quickness of the germination of the …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted …
- … as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of …
- … did not notice your remarks on Greenland Flora in a former note. — They seem to me to work …
- … upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of …
- … as p. xxvi. ie to where you treat of Australian Flora itself; & the latter part I remember …
- … Tahiti, it cannot make much difference in flora, whether they have sunk or risen a few …
- … How I wish you could work out Pacific Floras; I remember ages ago reading some of your …
- … places in world I sh d like to see good Flora of Sandwich Isl d . — I w d . subscribe £ …
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … of Adenanthera . New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued. Fritz Müller found six …
- … Press. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1859. On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and …
- … being an introductory essay to the flora of Tasmania. London: Lovell Reeve. Marginalia : …
- … brought back the Introduction to Australian Flora, after having read it over three times & …
- … produce for general readers on Insular Floras. I feel, however, sure that you will grapple …
- … unintelligible. One word more about about the flora derived from supposed pleistocene …
- … lived in Southampton ( Freeman 1978 ). Hooker’s essay on the Australian flora ( J. D. …
- … as an introduction to his taxonomic work Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1860b ), but was …
- … publish the text of his lecture on insular floras delivered at the British Association for …
- … had suggested that an isolated Antarctic flora was dispersed from a common centre over the …
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1844]
Summary
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. …
- … put me in the way of reading about Alpine Flora, I shall feel as the greatest kindness : I …
- … CD refers to Hooker’s notes on southern floras, enclosed in the letter from J. D. Hooker, …
- … distant countries, to understand their floras, in relation to each other; & the southern …
- … Comparison. To understand the relations of the Floras of these islands, I sh d like to see …
- … the lowland Tropics, in understanding the relation of the antarctic with the artic Floras. …
- … If the Fuegian Flora was treated in the analogous way, (& this would incidentally show how …
- … on a material difference in the degree of similarity in the Floras of the two regions. — …
- … trust you will work out the New Zealand Flora, as you have commenced at end of letter: is …
- … to S. America, sh d have an intermediate flora; I had fancied that nearly all the species …
- … forms? A discussion on the relations of the Floras, especially the alpine ones, of Azores, …
- … has not (ie is not related to) a Chilian Flora, but a South Sea one: surely this must be …
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1847]
Summary
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Nov 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1133 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … The last number of Hooker’s Flora Antarctica ( J. D. Hooker 1844–7 ) had been published …
- … hour’s farewell if his stomach permits. Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847]. …
- … heartily on the completion of your great Flora Antarctica. I will come about 12 oclock on …
- … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [July 1856]
Summary
CD cannot swallow continental extensions. Has written to Lyell giving a lengthy criticism of the concept [see 1910] and has asked Lyell to forward the letter to JDH.
Perhaps Aristolochia and Viscum are protandrous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1918 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … a general relation to southern circumpolar Flora, as much as to Fuegia. But if many of the …
- … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …
- … over your confounded Antarctic isl d . flora. Will you read over the Tristan list, & see …
- … distribution that arose from Hooker’s work on the flora of the Antarctic islands ( J. D. …
- … to explain the close similarities in their floras without invoking any former land-bridges …
- … In Natural selection , pp. 560–1, CD gave a summary of the flora of Tristan d’Acunha. …
- … He considered it to be related to the flora of Tierra del Fuego rather than of South …
- … s closest neighbour. The character of the flora of Tristan d’Acunha is discussed in J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [June 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland. Individual variation. …
- … Any account of Flora of Marianne Isl ds in N.W. Pacific. …
- … of Bonin Isl ds . Any account of Greenland Flora some Danish Man. — In Cnestis & Connaris, …
- … Perry . Hooker, who had worked on the flora of a neighbouring Pacific island in 1857 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867]
Summary
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5361 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands …
- … four parts of Hooker’s article on insular floras ( J. D. Hooker 1866a ) appeared in the …
- … closer to Africa than Madeira was, the flora of the Canary Islands was not African, and …
- … I suppose you look at whole Atlantic [’Flora‘ del ] genera as having been common to …
- … Atlantic islets, supported an Atlantic flora intermediate between that of Madeira and the …
- … described the destruction of the indigenous flora on St Helena, first by the introduction …
- … He attempted to reconstruct the original flora by collating two herbarium collections, and …
- … vegetation of the globe, to which that of the Flora of St Helena is as nothing. CD alludes …
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2008 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Questions JDH on separation of sexes in trees in New Zealand flora. …
- … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The …
- … Juniper Bushes. — I think in your N. Zealand Flora you have given the number of plants of …
- … worth your having to consult your own Flora. — What say you? Shall I send the M.S. list? …
- … result. If N. Zealand with so different a Flora gave at all same result, it would appear …
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Heinrich Rudolph. 1843–4. Spicilegium florae Rumelicae et Bithynicae exhibens synopsin …
- … Cambridge. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The botany …
- … Wilhelm Daniel Joseph. 1843–4. Synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae, exhibens stirpes …
- … Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1842–53. Flora Rossica sive enumeratio plantarum in totius …
- … to hear that you have been tabulating some Floras about varieties. Will you just tell me …
- … Grisebach, but I do not know even where Rumelia is. I shall work British Flora with …
- … 3 separate Floras; & I intend dividing the varieties into 2 classes as Asa Gray & Henslow …
- … as yet, I see. diag Babington British Flora 593 species in genera 593 (odd chance equal) …
- … 53 . Grisebach 1843–4 is a catalogue of the flora of Rumelia, a Turkish possession in the …
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1879]
Summary
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12338 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Joseph Dalton. 1853. Introductory essay to the flora of New Zealand. London: Lovell Reeve. …
- … about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again. …
- … including the relationship of the American flora to that of Europe and Asia (see letter …
- … annotated copy of Hooker’s Introductory essay to the flora of New Zealand ( Hooker 1853 ), …
- … bound with his On the flora of Australia ( Hooker 1859 ), in the Darwin Library–CUL (see …
- … of the South American and the New Zealand flora (see also Correspondence vol. 6, letter to …
To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. …
- … the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted …
- … 54, 362–86. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …
- … Joseph Dalton. 1853. Introductory essay to the flora of New Zealand. London: Lovell Reeve. …
- … seeing how little we know of the old Floras I will now jot down without any order a few …
- … So is their relation to the existing flora of the U. States under an evolutionary point …
- … and introduced plants ( Hooker 1881 , pp. 737–8). On the flora of New Zealand, see …
- … Hooker 1853 ; on the flora of Tierra del Fuego, see Hooker 1844–7 ; see also Hooker 1881 , …
- … others on the history of North American flora from the Cretaceous period to the present ( …
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora ( Blytt 1876 ; see Correspondence vol. 24, …
To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847]
Summary
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1105 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … go to Scotland. Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora. …
- … Bibliography Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1847. Floræ Tasmaniæ Spicilegium; or …
- … contributions towards a flora of Van Diemen’s Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 106–25, …
- … elections. Hooker was compiling a ‘Florae Tasmaniæ Spicilegium’ for the London Journal of …
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 August [1866]
Summary
Answers JDH’s questions on connection of SE. England and continent,
on the effect of breaking the Isthmus of Panama,
and on Madeira flora as remnant of Tertiary flora.
Cautionary remarks for JDH on his "Insular floras" speech, designed to strengthen case of "occasional migration" theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 and 4 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 295, 295b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5174 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … on the effect of breaking the Isthmus of Panama, and on Madeira flora as remnant …
- … of Tertiary flora. Cautionary …
- … remarks for JDH on his "Insular floras" speech, designed to strengthen case of "occasional …
- … Affolter, James. 1980. The ‘antarctic’ flora: researches of Charles Darwin and Joseph …
- … P. 112 3 rd . edit. Origin a too concise allusion to the Madeira flora being a remnant …
- … of the tertiary European flora. I shall feel deeply interested by reading your botanical …
- … certainly very curious. I thought the Azores flora was more boreal: but what can you mean …
To J. D. Hooker [22 April 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5064 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1857]
Summary
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2148 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … C. F. Ledebour [ Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. …
- … Heinrich Rudolph. 1843–4. Spicilegium florae Rumelicae et Bithynicae exhibens synopsin …
- … Wilhelm Daniel Joseph. 1843–4. Synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae, exhibens stirpes …
- … Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1842–53. Flora Rossica sive enumeratio plantarum in totius …
- … 1975. Visiani, Roberto de. 1842–52. Flora Dalmatica, sive enumeratio stirpium vascularium …
- … Prodromus, as you suggested; & if possible a Flora of Holland; & then I think I shall have …
To J. D. Hooker 9 January [1867]
Summary
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5353 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6]. …
- … four parts of Hooker’s article on insular floras ( J. D. Hooker 1866a ); the first part …
- … his article, Hooker pointed out that the flora of the Madeiran group was not dominated by …
- … Dalton. 1864–7. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a systematic description of the native …
- … Sir Joseph Hooker’s lecture on insular floras. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Hooker wrote that the flora on mountains of small oceanic islands …
- … volume of his Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 ), Hooker had …
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 28 hits
- … & imported well worth studying probably— Thunberg Flora Japonica [Thunberg 1784] in …
- … Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel Isl d . [Babington 1839 …
- … of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ].— Flora of St Helena 1825 [A. Watson 1825] in …
- … Himallaya & high Peru [Meyen 1836].— Phillippi on Flora of Sicily [Philippi 1836].— …
- … 1781]. Linn. on insects [Linnaeus 1781b]. Forsskahl on Flora of insects [Forsskahl 1781]. Avelin on …
- … trees of America [Downing 1845] 24 th Hopkirks Flora Anomala [Hopkirk 1817] July 8 …
- … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
- … Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in …
- … 97 [DAR *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious …
- … Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de Carbonnières 1799–1801 …
- … 50 c. [Goethe 1837] [DAR *128: 150] Heers Flora Helvetica Tertiaria, translated …
- … [Pitton de Tournefort 1718]. skimmed 27. Gmelin Flora Siberica [Gmelin 1747–69] 1855. …
- … Primitiæ floræ sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, …
- … Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1836. Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln. Annalen der Wien …
- … 119: 17b Forsskahl, Jonas Gustav. 1781. The flora of insects. In Linnaeus, ed., Select …
- … 119: 17a Gmelin, Johann Georg. 1747–69. Flora Sibirica sive historia plantarum …
- … 119: 22b Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of The botany of the …
- … Library.] 128: 8 Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817. Flora Anomoia. A general view of the …
- … Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen. Flora 31: 17–28; 33–44; 50–64; 66–8. *128: 177 …
- … London. 119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853. A flora and fauna within living animals. …
- … 128: 13 Michaux, François André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana . 2 vols. Paris. *119: …
- … 163 Philippi, Rudolph Armandus. 1836. Ueber die Flora Siciliens, im Vergleiche zu den …
- … natural history of the Himalayan mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere . 2 vols. London. …
- … and physick. To which is added the calendar of flora . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a …
- … . London. 128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784. Flora Japonica . Lipsiae. *119: 6v. …
- … 21b Torrey, John and Gray, Asa. 1838–43. A flora of North America: containing …
- … Zurich. *128: 169 ——. 1824–6. Flora Suecica . Upsalla. *128: 169 Walker, …
- … *119: 19v.; 119: 16a Watson, Alexander. 1825. Flora Sta Helenica . St Helena. *119: 7v …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Darwin returns the manuscript of Hooker’s On the Flora of Australia , which he has proofread. …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about the alpine Flora of the United States and I have …
- … and hearty admiration. [Your paper on the Statistics of the flora of the northern United States] …
- … and flatter myself I now appreciate the character of your Flora… One of your conclusions makes me …
- … I presume he has been urging you to finish your great Flora, before you do anything else. Now, I …
- … GRINDING AWAY: 1888 In which Gray grinds away at his Flora before suffering a stroke and …
- … 212 My dear Hooker…I grind away at [my] ‘Flora’ but, like the mills of the gods, I grind slowly, …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … and autodidact, with a special interest in mosses; his Flora of Warwickshire (1891) was based on …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Marianne North
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Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … himself a single problem–namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? . . . …
Biogeography
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most vivid …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. This …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … excitement of South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin complains to his …
The Letters
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Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s…
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- … who provided him with observations on the fauna, flora, and peoples of the world. The correspondence …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
1.11 Laura Russell, oil
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< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…
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- … 1869, when Laura was eight months pregnant with her daughter Flora. They visited Down House several …
Search tips
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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…
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- … care. We have manually coded some group identifiers (“flora” eg), index terms such as people, …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … work. When Darwin had read the introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he …
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … to Hooker. Indeed, when Hooker was writing his essay on the flora of Australia in December 1858, he …